Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1887-01-22
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

"a Ac" Ody6 dSO MT. zones, Oh
Waterloo, Kan, had twelve children;
now he has thirteen, and has named
the last "Chestnut."-N.Y Y. Mail.
Out at Hawthorn, Neb., in case Of
fire, if water does not happen to be
handy enough, they shovel sand upon,
the flames, knocking the fire out every
time.
-Celluloid is useful, but tricky.
CeIluloid cuts in newspaper ''form,"
placed near the stove in Cincinnati
publishing house burst into flame
Cincinnati Times.
by the New York Tribune Fresh
Air Fund &, ,ssase.lssasrn-.essS.ssnshsto
the country for fortnight IS vacation.
The expense was little less than
three dollars for each child. The
Tribune says that the plan originated
with Mr.. Cornelius Vanderbilt.
IL venture to point OUT writes
Prof. r. A. Proctor in a St. Louis pa
per, "that Peter does not speak of the
comet as 1 seem to say in my article
on the worlds end. My too fluent pen
is doubtless responsible for the printers
error, I wrote, the event. not the
comet. ."
According to the vital statistics of
Germany for 1885, 4,9O1 males and
1909 females committed suicide. The
methods of self-destruction were as
follows: Hanging, 1857; drowning,
1,177; shooting, GIL; poison, 1882; cut
ting their throats, 112; throwing them
selves under railroad trains, II; throw
ing themselves from heights, 49.
The story is told of worthy mer-
chant who, having lost by one ship
ment to the value of $40, 900, ordered
his clerk to distribute $500 among poor
ministers and other persons, adding
that that ''if his fortune was going by
$4,000 at a lump it was high time to
make sure of some part of it before it
was gone. DRY Goods Chronicle.
Asked why the Salvation Army
used red so much in their dress, Cen
era1 Booth is reported to have said: ''It
grew on US. We began by wearing a
small badge to know each other. Then
it became bigger and bigger, till some
| of the officers dress in red from top
to toe. live and sleep in red. hope
to die and be buried in it and go tc
glory in it,
Servant girls, says the Springfield
! (Mass.) Fnton, should never throw
| sand into the kitchen stove. 1t is ap1
| to deaden the fire, but sometimes has
the contrary effect. Susan Quinn, OF
Horseheads, n. Y, emptied bottle of
black sand into the kitchen fire Sunday
night, and she has not been able to find
the stove since. 1t was also very diff
cult for the folks to find Susan and put
her together again.
One of the most interesting features
of the ''Noman's Section at the Edin-
burgh International Exhibition is q
neat little pamphlet issued by the
Iadies-the Duchess of BuccIeuch and
others-who form the committee of that
section. 1t is entitled .Woman's In
dustries,' and is itself specimen of
woman's work. The type has been set,
the proofs have been read, and the
cover has been designed by women.
-Milkman David Whitney is the
possessor of a silver dollar on which
the head of the Goddess of Liberty
stands at right angles with the "buz-
zard' on the other side, as if the old
lady had been knocked down and the
bird was about to commence banquet
upon her flesh. At the Birmingham
Bank the specimen was pronounced
genuine. but entirely unique and unex-
plainable.-Ansor7iG (Co1,1.) Sentinel.
james Truett, of Harris County,
had a tooth that gave him q great deal
of trouble. He disliked to have it pulled
because his mouth would be distig-
ured. On the suggestion of dentist
he gave another man $15 for one of his
teeth. DR.. Chappels of La Grange,
pulled the tooth and then pulled Mr..
Truett's tooth, fitted the other tooth in
Mr.. Truett's mouth, and in few days
he could use it just as we'll as il it hsd-
grown there.-CoretG (G0.) AdUert5ser!,
An extraordinary surgical success
has been re-announccd with the de-
cease of Peter Woodhall, citizen of
Chattanooga, Tenn. who has lived in
full retention of all his faculties for
over five years with no upper half to
his skull. An artificial skull was pre-
pared for him after an accident, and its
employment proved entirely adequate.
The medical journals all chronicled the
matter as one of the many marvels of
modern chirurgery.-N. Y. I,adepe71d-
eaat
A visitor in town went through the
Farrell foundry on Friday, and coming
to the molding department found the
employees pouring heat. Working
about the cupola is a man they call
"Tom,n who is not much afraid of fire
Of fa1